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Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 8:41 PM

👏Click to Cancel approved by the FTC

Becomes effective in 180 days. Easy to search up if interested.

One of few Gov. bean counter rules I like.

A quote from the media said;

“Consumers uniformly opposed having to engage with a representative to cancel when they could simply click a button to enroll." (ie; retention departments)

Supposedly 280 pages, what's actually in it and not smoothed over for big business like Xfinity? We shall see.

What's it mean here, we shall see.

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Captain

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6 days ago

@dlpsr This is a great event but there is a caveat I would like to bring up. Before getting to that, let me clearly say I am in no way a fan or supporter of a "loyalty dept" and will be glad to see Simpisafe's gone.  That said, with the possibility of data breaches seemingly  happening everyday, I would personally like the option to have my account marked that any and all changes to my monitoring plan would require a call in and providing my safe word to any general customer service agent. For those that want the soon to be "click to cancel" for SS monitoring, they can have it and God speed.

Now for those bums at Sirius Radio, Comcast and most newspapers, get ready for a huge change on how you do business.

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@captain11​ Do whatever you wish.

Actually if you check into it, some businesses were proactive and as a customer service complied early or brown nosing. Sirius might have been one of those. Most hard copy newspapers are almost dead, so....

Xfinity has been awful for "loyalty". And fought it big time. And some other billion dollar companies.

And obviously you may be able to request whatever you want at SS. I don't know.

I know if they're ever hacked it won't matter much.

Data breaches have little to do with safe words, except that, if SS is ever hacked they may have that word and more.

ADTs recent two hacks both came through 3rd party vendors. No user video's etc. were taken, or so they say.

In 2017, Google began giving out physical Titan security keys to all 85,000 of its employees. Google says that since then, no employees have reported any confirmed takeovers of their work-related accounts. So they say...

I personally use Yubikeys for 2fa where possible and supported. Similar to Google Titan keys.

Text or push codes are the weakest security on the planet. Banks use it. Lol

Hacks come in by an employee getting spoofed or opening an email containing Malware etc. Poor supervision of 3rd party vendors and poor cyber security plans.

Once they're in, they want the databases with customer names, addresses, phone, email etc. Social Security numbers, etc And safe words maybe, why they would want bother to mess up an account though, wouldn't be very profitable. Exploitation, profit, ransomware is the target. Theft.

My opinion, opposite of yours, is safe words are the beginning requirements to speak with retention. IMHO, Bantha Fodder. Security provider wide almost, actually regardless of company names, except Noonlight. Dark Marketing.

Encryption of videos in transit only protects it in travel. Has little to do with hacks of the back end server systems.

National Public Data's recent breach forced them into bankruptcy, rather than face the music.

I locked or froze all of my TransUnion, Experian etc. credit accounts and activated their free monitoring from Experian's own hacks. Or maybe it was a phone company. 🤔 Lol

You see, Experian is poor at security, they don't even require "any" 2fa to login. Multiple hacks until they wake up.

China recently claimed they broke AES Encryption. If true, thats a big deal. Or may be.

I'm not a cyber security expert, or maybe I am, lol, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express more than once.😆

Anyhow, I prefer logging in similar to the Play Store and in two or 3 clicks, Cancel Subscription. Done. Been working well for years.

Sorry, but you pushed my long response button.

Captain

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@dlpsr​ Like you said, we can now have a choice.   bYW, where is that button of yours so I can make sure I avoid it in the future! 😉

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@captain11​ Depends. I require the creation of safe words for access to my long replies button avoidance button.😆🤓🔘

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6 days ago

This a big deal too if true.

https://hackread.com/intel-broker-cisco-data-breach-selling-firms-data/

Captain

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@dipsr, not good at all. There isn't much left to the imagination on anyone that's not on the dark web already. Like Simplisafe's approach to "layers of defense", all one can do is to follow the same strategy in all of their online accounts. Examples: For my cell phone carrier, besides the usual user id and pw, a PIN is required to transfer any line to another carrier or SIM to a different phone.  Both are store in separate systems and db.  For my financial advisor, user id, pw, voice id, 2 FA and enhanced pw. Yes, all can fail but we have to at least try to make it harder for the dirt bags out there. Like safe word verification to change or cancel monitoring.

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